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divide-and-conquer/rule
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divide-and-conquer/rule
divide and conquer/rule - a way of keeping yourself in a position of power by making the people under you disagree with each other so that they are unable to join together and remove you from your position. They used divide-and-rule tactics to isolate their opponents. (always before noun)
See also: rule
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Though none of the venues are technically within Los Angeles city limits, the divide-and-conquer strategy could prove useful in drawing an audience from a tar flung population like that of Los Angeles.
Toy soldiering by Riley-Katz, Anne / Los Angeles Business Journal
That divide-and-conquer strategy is just what the neocons need.
Unwise strategy by Walsh, John / The New American
To thwart revolutionary alliances among enslaved blacks, subjugated Indians, and marginalized whites, the great planters adopted a divide-and-conquer strategy.
Foul Means: The Formation of a Slave Society in Virginia, 1660-1740 by French, Scot / Journal of Social History
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